UK Labour lawmaker Jo Cox has been confirmed dead by police after being stabbed and shot earlier on Thursday.
According to a British police commissioner, the attack on the lawmaker was a localized incident.
Cox, a Labour lawmaker representing Batley and Spen constituency for the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, was shot and stabbed earlier Thursday outside Birstall Library, near Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
Local police reported they had arrested a 52-year-old man suspected of the attack.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron canceled his rally in Gibraltar campaigning for UK staying in the EU after the assault on Cox.
